#  ITC Seminar - Trevor David (Flatiron) 

 



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 **November 4, 2019** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **Pratt**  



 

 



 

**Four newborn planets transiting the young solar analog V1298 Tau** Compact, multi-planet systems are one of the defining discoveries of the *Kepler* mission. These planetary systems are ubiquitous in the galaxy yet much about their nature remains a mystery, including whether they formed in situ and what their architectures were when the protoplanetary disk dispersed. Theoretical models suggest that close-in *Kepler* planets had radii that were roughly 2 to 10 times larger at the time of disk dispersal. With the recent discoveries of exoplanets transiting young stars (<100 Myr), it is now possible to put these models to the test and study close-in planets at a stage when contraction, cooling, and initial atmospheric loss are still underway. To date, only a few exoplanets have been discovered transiting pre-main sequence stars, all of which are currently single-planet systems. I will discuss the recent detection of four transiting planets larger than 5 Earth radii orbiting within ~0.5 AU of a young solar analog aged between 20-30 Myr. The inner planets are larger than Neptune and expected to be actively losing envelope mass through photo-evaporation. The outer planets are both Jupiter-sized and, with separations >0.15 AU photo-evaporation is expected to play a lesser role. Consequently, the outer planets may be particularly valuable benchmarks, with properties that may more closely reflect the initial conditions of *Kepler* planets. In a single system, we thus have the opportunity to study proto-*Kepler* planets across a range of insolation fluxes shortly after the accretion of envelopes and at a time when stellar X-ray emission is near its peak.

 

 



 

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